Success is a decision, not a gift.
I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.
Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing.
We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.
Do not forget Him but think on Him often. Adore Him continually. Live and die with Him. This is the glorious work of a Christian; in a word, this is our profession. If we do not know it, we must learn it.
Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God. . . . Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.
The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.
Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.
In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.
The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character.
When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned what you are left with is an ocean of bliss. What you emerged with what you are is an ocean of bliss. Your cells and atoms and brain and bones and blood stream all of it is bliss.